BOOKS IN ENGLISH ON POLITICAL SCIENCE
AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Art, Robert J.International politics. Enduring concepts and Contemporary Issues / Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis. - 9th ed. - Pearson Longman, 2009. - 586, [17] p. - (U.S.).
/ Art, Robert J.International politics. Enduring concepts and Contemporary Issues.
ISBN: 0205642721
ISBN: 9780205642724
Edited by two of the most respected international relations scholars, International Politics places contemporary essays alongside classics to survey the field’s diverse voices, concepts, and issues. Challenging students to use original scholarship to recognize and analyze patterns in world politics, this bestselling reader considers how to effectively understand politics under governments and beyond. Carefully edited selections cover the most essential topics and are put into conversation with each other to illustrate fundamental debates and differing points of view. Comprehensive and engaging, International Politics offers the best overview of the discipline as well as the forces shaping the world today.
Barston, R.PModern Diplomacy / R.P. Barston. - 3rd ed. - Pearson, 2006. - 387, [20] p. - (U.S.).
/ Barston, R.PModern Diplomacy.
ISBN: 140581201X
ISBN: 9781405812016
This text comprehensively introduces the concept and history of diplomacy and explores the many developments which have shaped its conduct.
Berridge, G.R.Diplomacy. Theory and Practice / G.R. Berridge. - 3rd ed. - Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - 242, [17] p. - (U.S.).
/ Berridge, G.R.Diplomacy. Theory and Practice.
ISBN: 1403993114
ISBN: 9781403993113
This completely revised and updated edition includes comprehensive coverage of the main issues, from the value of the resident mission to international negotiation and chapters on telecommunications and the ministry of foreign affairs. Diplomacy offers the most up-to-date information about the real-world practice of international relations.
Blaker, MichaelCase Studies in Japanese Negotiating Behavior / Michael Blaker, Paul Giarra, Ezra F. Vogel. - United States Institute of Peace, 2002. - 171, [5] p. - (U.S.).
/ Blaker, MichaelCase Studies in Japanese Negotiating Behavior.
ISBN: 1929223102
ISBN: 9781929223107Japanese representatives bring to the negotiating table a distinctive mind-set and behavioral style, one that?s largely free of gamesmanship and histrionics but that?s nonetheless frequently exasperating.
This volume explores four recent U.S.?Japanese negotiations?two over trade, two over security-related issues?looking for patterns in Japan?s approach and behavior. In the first three cases, veteran Japanologist Michael Blaker finds the same fundamental style?coping. ?Coping captures the go-with-the-flow essence of the Japanese bargaining approach?: cautious, methodical, low key, resistant, apprehensive, and above all defensive. In the fourth case, Ezra Vogel and Paul Giarra recount how the United States and Japan fashioned a new security framework for their relationship in the 1990s. Vogel and Giarra show that close personal relationships, mutual trust, and a common purpose can foster flexible, fast, and fruitful negotiations.
Each case study explains the cultural as well as political, institutional, and personal factors and assesses their influence. A concluding chapter draws out common threads from the four studies, suggests how U.S. negotiators can maximize negotiating efficacy, and points the way toward a new and clearer understanding of Japanese bargaining behavior.
Bomberg, ElizabethThe European Union. How Does it Work? / Elizabeth Bomberg, John Peterson, Alexander Stubb; series editors John Peterson, Helen Wallace. - 2nd ed. - OXFORD University Press, 2008. - 269, [25] p. - (The New European Union Series).
/ Bomberg, ElizabethThe European Union. How Does it Work?
ISBN: 0199206392
ISBN: 9780199206391
The new edition of this concise introductory text demystifies the European Union's structures and operation, providing an engaging and accessible introduction to how the EU works and why it matters. Featuring an exceptional collection of work by esteemed contributors, it offers students a unique blend of scholarly expertise and practitioners' experience.
The European Union, Second Edition, answers the fundamental questions of how the EU works, who its main actors are, and what processes and dynamics are involved. Taking a "real-life" view of the EU's structures and operation--as opposed to the more formal approach generally adopted by other textbooks--it provides a vivid account that brings the EU to life. This second edition features two new chapters; one on security in Europe and another on constitutionalism and democracy. It also includes Eastward expansion in the chapter on enlargement.
Brett, Jeanne M.Negotiating Globally. How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries / Jeanne M. Brett. - 2nd ed. - Jossey-Bass, 2007. - 350, [25] p. - (U.S.). + CD
/ Brett, Jeanne M.Negotiating Globally. How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries.
ISBN: 0787988367
ISBN: 9780787988364
When it was first published in 2001, Negotiating Globally quickly became the basic reference for managers who needed to learn how to negotiate successfully across boundaries of national culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition preserves the structure of the acclaimed first edition and improves upon it, making it even easier to learn how to navigate national culture when negotiating deals, resolving disputes, and making decisions in teams. Rather than offering country-specific protocol and customs, Negotiating Globally provides a general framework to help negotiators anticipate and manage cultural differences. This new edition incorporates the lessons of the latest research with new emphasis on executing a negotiation strategy and negotiating conflict in multicultural teams. The well-received chapter on ?Government At and Around the Table? has been expanded and updated with new examples that span the globe.
In this comprehensive resource, Jeanne M. Brett describes how to develop a negotiation planning document and shows how to execute the plan. She provides a model that explains how the cultural environment affects negotiators? interests, priorities, and strategies. She provides benchmarks for distinguishing good deals from poor ones and good negotiators from poor ones. The book explains how resolving disputes is different from making deals and how negotiation strategy can be used in multicultural teams. Negotiating Globally challenges negotiators to expand their repertoire of strategies so that they will be able to close deals, resolve disputes, and get teams to make decisions.
Burchill, ScottTheories of International Relations / Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak… [et.al.]. - 4th ed. - Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 382, [9] p. - (U.S.).
/ Burchill, ScottTheories of International Relations.
ISBN: 0230219233
ISBN: 9780230219236
The stand-out advanced textbook in the field Burchill et als. Theories of International Relations is far and away the stand-out textbook in the field for advanced graduate and postgraduate students. Informative and critically engaged, each chapter is a sympathetic analysis of the particular theory in question, of which it covers all of the mainstream. There is no better text for students with some knowledge of the field than this text.The only criticism of this text that could be mentioned is not so much a criticism of this book in particular but of this type of IR theory textbook. The problem with these sorts of paradigmatic approaches to IR theory is the perception mainly on the part of students, but also academics, that there is to some extent a coherent ''realist IR theory'', or ''liberal international theory''. Unfortunately, even when the authors are at pains to stress the problems of perceiving, for example, English School IR theory, as coherent, the very nature of the ''textbook'', and the mass-taught IR Theory undergraduate module for that matter, is the perception of coherency and also of conflict between theories, rather than the vast intellectual overlap which they share.
Thus, while this textbook is unquestionably the leader in the advanced IR theory field, readers should be greatly encouraged to broaden their understanding of the debates (not just ''Great'' ones) ongoing in the discipline (Postivism and beyond by Smith, Booth and Zalewski in particular) and knowledge of the discipline''s history through reading the original texts themselves discussed in the books. No greater understanding of a tradition of thought can be gained than reading the original texts that are discussed in such depth in this book.
Cini, MichelleEuropean Union Politics / Michelle Cini, Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan. - 3rd ed. - Oxford University Press, 2010. - 485 p. - (Copy).
Cogan, CharlesFrench Negotiating Behavior. Dealing with La Grande Nation / Charles Cogan. - United States Institute of Peace Press, 2005. - 344, [18] p. - (U.S.).
/ Cogan, CharlesFrench Negotiating Behavior. Dealing with La Grande Nation.
ISBN: 1929223528
ISBN: 9781929223527
Even before it led opposition to the recent war on Iraq, France was considered the most difficult of the United States’ major European allies. Each side tends to irritate the other, not least at the negotiating table, where Americans complain of French pretensions and arrogance, and the French fulminate against U.S. hegemonisme and egoisme. But, whether they like it or not, the two nations are going to have to deal with one another for a long time to come.
Charles Cogan’s timely and insightful study can’t guarantee to make those encounters more fruitful, but it will help France’s negotiating counterparts understand how and why French officials behave as they do. With impressive objectivity and authority, Cogan first explores the cultural and historical factors that have shaped the French approach and then dissects its key elements. Mixing rationalism and nationalism, rhetoric and brio, self-importance and embattled vulnerability, French negotiators often seem more interested in asserting their country’s "universal" mission than in reaching agreement. Three recent case studies illustrate this distinctively French mélange.
Yet agreement is by no means always elusive. Cogan offers practical suggestions for making negotiations more cooperative and productive—although he also emphasizes the long-term damage inflicted by the crisis over Iraq.
Drawing on candid interviews with many of today’s leading players on the French, American, British, and German sides, this engaging volume will inform and stimulate both seasoned practitioners and academics as well as students of France and the negotiating process.
Cohen, RaymondNegotiating Across Cultures. International Communication in an Interdependent World / Raymond Cohen. - rev. ed. - United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007. - 269, [16] p. - (U.S.).
/ Cohen, RaymondNegotiating Across Cultures. International Communication in an Interdependent World.
ISBN: 1878379720
ISBN: 9781878379726
For this substantially revised edition of his 1991 book, Raymond Cohen has added two new chapters, updated previous examples, and added numerous recent ones, especially concerning U.S. trade agreements. Newly added cases include the negotiations over NAFTA, China's most-favored-nation status, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and the Okinawa bases. All in all, about 40 percent of the text is new. Cohen explores how cultural factors have affected U.S. dealings with Japan, China, Egypt, India, and Mexico. He demonstrates that there are two quite different models of negotiation: "low context," a predominantly verbal and explicit style typical of individualistic societies such as the United States, and "high context," a style associated with nonverbal and implicit communication more typical of traditionally interdependent societies. He concludes the book with ten specific recommendations for the intercultural negotiator.
Cohen, YoelMedia Diplomacy. The Foreign Office in the Mass Communications Age / Yoel Cohen. - Frank Cass, 2005. - 197, [10] p. - (U.S.).
/ Cohen, YoelMedia Diplomacy. The Foreign Office in the Mass Communications Age.
ISBN: 0714632694
ISBN: 9780714632698
Dinan, DesmondEver Closer Union. An Introduction to European Integration / Desmond Dinan; gen. editors Neill Nugent, William E. Paterson. - 3rd ed. - Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - 665, [14] p. - (The European Union Series).
/ Dinan, DesmondEver Closer Union. An Introduction to European Integration.
ISBN: 0333961714
ISBN: 9780333961711
Downs, AnthonyAn Economic Theory of Democracy / Anthony Downs. - Addison Wesley, 1985. - 310, [10] p. - (U.S.).
/ Downs, AnthonyAn Economic Theory of Democracy.
ISBN: 0060417501
ISBN: 9780060417505
Eban, Abba SolomonDiplomacy for the Next Century / Abba Solomon Eban. - Yale University Press, 1998. - 191, [8] p. - (U.S.).
/ Eban, Abba SolomonDiplomacy for the Next Century.
ISBN: 0300078609
SBN: 9780300078602
With wisdom and eloquence, one of the world`s preeminent senior statesmen offers his unique perspective on the practice of diplomacy over the past fifty years and on the diplomatic challenges of the post-Cold War era. Abba Eban, Israel`s much admired former foreign minister and ambassador to the United Nations, interweaves history with personal reminiscences to show how the wisdom of the past can help in negotiating and maintaining peace in the future.
Elsuwege, Peter VanFrom Soviet Republics to EU Member States. A Legal and Political Assessment of the Baltic States' Accession to the EU. Volume 1 / Peter Van Elsuwege; series editor Marc Maresceau. - Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008. - 304 p. - (Copy).
European Union Enlargement of 2004 and Beyond: Responding to the Political, Legal and Socio-Economic Challenges / editor in chief Tatjana Muravska. - University of Latvia, 2006. - 532 p.
/ European Union Enlargement of 2004 and Beyond: Responding to the Political, Legal and Socio-Economic Challenges.editor in chief Tatjana Muravska
ISBN: 9984802116
SBN: 9789984802114
European Union. Power and Policy-Making / edited by Jeremy Richardson. - 3rd ed. - Routledge, 2006. - 406, [16] p.
/ European Union. Power and Policy-Making.edited by Jeremy Richardson
ISBN: 0415358140
ISBN: 9780415358149
This best-selling book delivers a comprehensive introduction to the policymaking processes at work in the European Union.
Written by some of the leading authorities in the field, this new edition has been significantly improved to make it even more accessible for second and third year undergraduates. Addressing some of the more contentious areas in order to stimulate students interest, this book covers also continues to cover the vital elements of EU courses including:
* Theory
* History
* Institutions
* Policy
* Relations with member states
* External relations
* Enlargement.
A companion website also supports this edition, with a clear guide to more technical material such as statistics, as well as regular updates.
This book is essential reading for all students of politics and the European Union.
Frank, ThomasWhat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America / Thomas Frank. - 1st ed. - Metropolitan Books, 2004. - 306, [12] p. - (U.S.).
/ Frank, ThomasWhat's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.
ISBN: 0805073396
ISBN: 9780805073393
The largely blue collar citizens of Kansas can be counted upon to be a "red" state in any election, voting solidly Republican and possessing a deep animosity toward the left. This, according to author Thomas Frank, is a pretty self-defeating phenomenon, given that the policies of the Republican Party benefit the wealthy and powerful at the great expense of the average worker. According to Frank, the conservative establishment has tricked Kansans, playing up the emotional touchstones of conservatism and perpetuating a sense of a vast liberal empire out to crush traditional values while barely ever discussing the Republicans' actual economic policies and what they mean to the working class. Thus the pro-life Kansas factory worker who listens to Rush Limbaugh will repeatedly vote for the party that is less likely to protect his safety, less likely to protect his job, and less likely to benefit him economically. To much of America, Kansas is an abstract, "where Dorothy wants to return. Where Superman grew up." But Frank, a native Kansan, separates reality from myth in What's the Matter with Kansas and tells the state's socio-political history from its early days as a hotbed of leftist activism to a state so entrenched in conservatism that the only political division remaining is between the moderate and more-extreme right wings of the same party. Frank, the founding editor of The Baffler and a contributor to Harper's and The Nation, knows the state and its people. He even includes his own history as a young conservative idealist turned disenchanted college Republican, and his first-hand experience, combined with a sharp wit and thorough reasoning, makes his book more credible than the elites of either the left and right who claim to understand Kansas.
Freeman, Charles W.Arts of Power. Statecraft and Diplomacy / Charles W. Freeman. - United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007. - 159, [15] p. - (U.S.).
/ Freeman, Charles W.Arts of Power. Statecraft and Diplomacy.
ISBN: 1878379658
ISBN: 9781878379658
In this comprehensive treatment, distinguished diplomat Chas Freeman describes the fundamental principles of the art of statecraft and the craft of diplomacy. The book draws on the author's years of experience as a practicing diplomat but also his extensive reading of the histories of ancient India, China, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and the Islamic world as well as modern Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Among numerous other subjects, the book addresses the role of intelligence, political actions, cultural influence, economic measures, and military power, as well as diplomatic strategy and tactics, negotiation, and the tasks and skills of diplomacy.
Freeman, Charles W.The Diplomat's Dictionary / Charles W. Freeman. - rev. ed. - United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006. - 451, [10] p. - (U.S.).
/ Freeman, Charles W.The Diplomat's Dictionary.
ISBN: 1878379666
ISBN: 9781878379665
In this entertaining and informative collection, career diplomat Chas Freeman brings together keen observations, witty insights, shrewd advice, and classic words of wisdom on the art and practice of diplomacy. In so doing, this wide-ranging compendium draws on many cultures, ancient and modern. This revised edition adds about eighty new entries to the text. Like the first edition, it should be useful to "anyone who may be called upon to deal with complex and challenging situations in cross-cultural circumstances.
Gelm, Richard J.How American Politics Works. Philosophy, Pragmatism, Personality and Profit / Downs Gelm. - Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. - 232, [12] p. - (U.S.).